Die ware betekenis van die kruis word nie altyd verstaan nie. Baie Christene praat oor die kruis en verkondig die kruis, terwyl hulle as vyande van die kruis lewe. What is the significance of the cross according to the Bible and what does the cross mean in the lives of Christians?
Baie Christene het op hul manier 'n verhouding met Jesus en die Vader
There are many Christians that believe in Jesus Christ and repented and are born again, but don’t want to have anything to do with the moral part of the law. They don’t want to keep all kinds of rules and consider them legalistic. En wettisisme is deel van godsdiens en nie deel van ’n verhouding met Jesus Christus nie.
Hulle wil nie vertel word wat om te doen nie, but they want to be free. They want to live in freedom and have a relationship with Jesus Christ and the Father their way.
In baie gevalle, the relationship looks more like a LAT relationship (Living Apart Together) than a marriage. Want baie keer, Christians only spend time with God when they have a need or problems in their lives.
When they’ve a need or problems, they need God to show up and supply their needs and fix their problems. Egter, the rest of the time, hulle leef volgens hulle eie wil, doen wat hulle wil doen.
In elk geval, going back to the fact that many Christians say that the moral part of the law is not relevant anymore, how come, that they say they are redeemed from the law, intussen, they still live as carnal people to whom the law was intended. Wat beteken dit?
The old carnal man keeps falling back into sin
The law of Moses was meant for the old carnal man, who lived in a sinful flesh from a fallen state and belonged to God’s chosen people by birth and the circumcision in the flesh. The sacrificial laws were meant for the old carnal man.
The sacrificial laws dealt with the (individu) sondes en ongeregtighede van die ou vleeslike man, but not with the sinful nature of the old carnal man.
Die bloed van diere was nie kragtig genoeg om die sondige natuur van die ou mens te hanteer nie. That’s because animals are not equal to man. Die vlees van diere is anders as die vlees van die mens (1 Korintiërs 15:39).
The blood of animals could only deal with the sinful deeds that derived from the sinful flesh.
Daarom, the blood of animals could only make a temporary atonement for the sins of man. Daarom moes die opofferings op 'n gereelde basis gedoen word.
Despite the sacrifices and the blood of perfect animals, man remained the same.
The old man was still trapped in the sinful nature of the flesh and could not be delivered from it.
Elke keer, hulle moes hul sondes bely, bekeer en maak versoening vir hulle sondes. Hulle sondes is vergewe en vergewe deur die offers en die bloed van diere totdat hulle teruggekeer het na hul ou gewoontes en weer gesondig het. Dit was 'n voortdurende proses.
Die bloed van diere het voortdurend gevloei, but the sinful nature of the flesh remained present in the generation of fallen man.
Jesus het gehandel met die sondige natuur van die gevalle mens
This process continued until Jesus came and dealt with the sinful nature of fallen man that produces sin and leads to death.
Aangesien die kinders dan deelgenote van vlees en bloed is, Hy het ook self ook deel daarvan gehad; sodat Hy deur die dood hom kon vernietig wat mag oor die dood het, dit wil sê, die duiwel; En verlos hulle wat deur vrees vir die dood hulle hele lewe lank aan slawerny onderworpe was (Hebreërs 2:14-15)
Jesus het nie net die sondes op Hom geneem nie. He carried the sins and iniquities in Sy vlees en het die Plaasvervanger vir die gevalle mens geword. Jesus het die straf vir sondes gedra, wat die dood is, en Hades wettig binnegekom het (Hel).
Egter, the death was not strong enough to keep Jesus in Hades. Na drie dae, Jesus rose from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit with the keys of hell and death. Jesus conquered the power of death and had taken the dominion legally back from the devil.
Jesus released the righteous prisoners of death and gave the ability to everyone to be delivered from the power of death and hell en met God versoen word. (O. Matteus 27:50-54; John 1:11-13; Romeine 5:10; 2 Korintiërs 5:18-20; Efesiërs 4:10; Kolossense 1:21-23).
En Jesus het gekom en met hulle gespreek, sê, Alle mag is aan My gegee in die hemel en op aarde. Gaan julle dan, en leer al die nasies, hulle doop in die Naam van die Vader, en van die Seun, en van die Heilige Gees: Leer hulle om alles te onderhou wat Ek julle ook al beveel het: en, kyk, Ek is altyd by jou, even unto the end of the earth
Matteus 28:18-20
The new creation is delivered from the sinful flesh through regeneration
Only by faith in Jesus Christ and becoming born again, 'n persoon kan verlos word van die sondige vlees. Deur die doop in Christ and the baptism with the Holy Spirit, the flesh of the old man dies and the spirit raises from the dead and the new man receives the Holy Spirit.
The new creation has left the old behind and receives a new life in the spirit. In die gesag van Jesus Christus en deur die krag van die Heilige Gees, the new man has the ability to become a son of God (beide mans en wyfies) and walk as a son of God in obedience to God in righteousness.
The new man shall put away the carnal works of the old man, and do the will of the Spirit, whereby the new man shall come forth in the natural. (Lees ook: Kan jy die opstandingslewe leef sonder om te sterf?)
The Holy Spirit has the same will as Jesus and the Father and confronts and reproves a person of sin. Dan is dit aan die persoon om Hom te gehoorsaam en die sondes weg te sit.
Omdat die persoon nie meer tot die geslag van die gevalle mens behoort nie en nie meer die duiwel as vader het nie.
The person belongs to the generation of the new man (nuwe skepping) that is created in Jesus Christ. The new creation is born of God and has God as Father.
The new creations are the sons of God and together they are the church; die liggaam van Jesus Christus.
Die doel van die kerk is to raise the saints in the Word of God and equip them. Sodat, they know the will of God and become equal to Jesus Christ and walk as Jesus walked in obedience to the Father’s will, preaching and bringing the Kingdom of God to the people.
Persevere in sin through ignorance and a lack of knowledge
Egter, the problem is that in many churches instead of sons of God, Teoloë, motiveringsprekers of selfbevorderaars, wat nog die ou skepping is en 'n gedaante van godsaligheid het, is agter die kansel en leer die gelowiges.
Hulle leer hulle vanuit 'n vleeslike ingesteldheid en hul eie menslike wysheid, kennis, en filosofieë in plaas van die denke van Christus en die waarheid van God se Woord.
In order to get an audience and attract people and be exalted, hulle verkondig wat mense wil hoor.
Through their sermons that revolve around the carnal man (vlees), they ensure that the people become depended on them and that they stand above the believers.
By preaching carnal words and vain philosophies that derive from their carnal mind, instead of preaching the truth of God’s Word that derives from the mind of Christ, they keep the believers ignorant about the truth.
Deur hul leuens, hulle hou hulle in slawerny, En dit is presies wat die duiwel wil hê.
Deur gebrek aan kennis van God se Woord, Christians keep living in bondage of their flesh. Hulle bly agter die vlees aan loop en volhard in sonde en kan nie ophou sondig nie.
Aan die een kant, word hulle vertel, dat daar geen sonde meer is nie. Daarom, they can’t walk in sin. En aan die ander kant, they are told that they always remain a sinner. Therefore they will persevere in sin until the day that they’ll die. Want net deur natuurlike dood, hulle sal verlos word van hulle sondige vlees.
False doctrines are preached to keep Christians in bondage
But that is a big lie that derived from the carnal mind of people, wat nog die ou skepping was. This false doctrine is based upon human philosophies and personal experiences. If this doctrine would be true, hoekom het Jesus dan na hierdie aarde toe gekom? Hoekom moes Jesus ons Plaasvervanger word om vir eens en vir altyd die sondeprobleem te hanteer? En wat gebeur het op die dag van Pinkster?
The people that came up with this false doctrine were unspiritual. Hulle wou nie hul eie vleeslike lewe aflê nie. En so, they adjusted the gospel and truth of God to their own carnal experiences, bevindings, begeertes, en begeertes.
En as gevolg van die feit, dat hulle deur die kerk aangestel is omdat hulle ’n diploma of Ph.D. and therefore obtained a certain status, the church adopted and applied this doctrine. To this day, this lie is still preached.
Christians are sidetracked
As gevolg van hierdie valse leerstelling, many Christians are sidetracked and many souls have been lost. While they could have been saved by preaching the right sermons according to the Bible (die woord) en die Heilige Gees.
As gevolg van hierdie leuen, many Christians have the idea that when they bekeer en wedergebore word (according to their theology), hulle word nie net van hulle ou sondes gereinig nie, but also from their sins in which they persevere after they become born again. Because they can’t be redeemed from sin, but will always stay a sinner.
If the Bible says that Jesus came to redeem man and has redeemed man through His work at the cross, but the preacher or theologian says that man always remains a sinner, Wie praat die waarheid?
What has Jesus done at the cross according to these theologians or preachers? Wat was die doel van Sy koms en die betekenis van Sy offer?
As gevolg van die feit, that many Christians are not truly born again and have no personal relationship with Jesus Christ; die woord, maar glo eerder, trust and lean on the words of preachers and theologians. They believe the words of people above the words of God.
Want soos deur een mens se ongehoorsaamheid is baie sondaars gemaak, so sal baie deur die gehoorsaamheid van Een regverdig gemaak word
Romeine 5:19
Die sondes in plaas van die vlees wat aan die kruis vasgespyker is
In plaas daarvan om hulle vlees te kruisig, waarin die sondige natuur bly en wat sonde voortbring, hulle spyker hulle sondes aan die kruis. Hulle hanteer nie die sondeprobleem nie, waarvoor Jesus na hierdie aarde gekom het. In plaas daarvan, they keep living in the lies, wat deur die duiwel versprei word deur die filosofieë van vleeslike mense.
Maar die waarheid is, dit solank die vlees van die ou man nie sterf nie, the person shall walk after the flesh and persevere in sin and shall keep doing the things that oppose the will of God.
Solank mense volhard in sonde, hulle is nie van sonde verlos nie, but are still a dienaar van sonde.
In some churches or at seminars there is even a wooden cross on the stage with pieces of paper, nails, and a hammer.
Die besoekers kan hul sondes of probleme op hierdie stuk papier neerskryf en dit aan die kruis vasspyker. Maar dit is 'n vleeslike daad van emosie (vlees) en het niks met die Gees te doen nie.
Because when they go home, they continue their lives and fall back into the same sin. Net soos die volk van God in die Ou Testament.
That’s why many Christian, wat beweer dat hulle wedergebore is, en wil niks met die wet te doen hê nie, live the same way as the carnal people of God for whom the law was intended, naamlik: die vleeslike ou man, who is trapped in the sinful flesh.
In plaas daarvan om die sondeprobleem te hanteer, naamlik die oorsaak van sonde: die sondige vlees, they try to deal with their sins out of their flesh by using all kinds of natural means and methods
Jesus het gesterf as gevolg van die sonde van die ou mens
Jesus didn’t die for your sins so that you can keep walking in sins. But Jesus died because of your sins that derive from the sinful nature of the flesh of the old man.
Jesus died for the old man, die sondaar. Sodat, in Hom, die ou man (vlees) sterf en die nuwe mens (gees) word uit die dode grootgemaak.
Jesus not only dealt with the sins and iniquities of fallen man at the cross. But Jesus also dealt with the sinful nature of fallen man, wat in die vlees aanwesig is. Dis hoekom, Wanneer 'n persoon, wat 'n ou skepping is ('n sondaar), word wedergebore, is nie meer 'n sondaar nie.
In wie julle ook besny is met die besnydenis wat sonder hande gedoen is, deur die liggaam van die sondes van die vlees af te lê deur die besnydenis van Christus: Begrawe saam met Hom in die doop, waarin julle ook saam met Hom opgewek is deur die geloof in die werking van God, wat hom uit die dood grootgemaak het (Kolossense 2:11-12)
The person has become a new creation: die geregtigheid van God in Christus. 'n Persoon, wat 'n nuwe skepping geword het, sal nie meer in sonde volhard nie. Want dié, wat aan Christus behoort, het hulle vlees gekruisig met hulle geneenthede en begeerlikhede. Daarom, hulle sal nie volhard in sonde nie, maar sal die werke van geregtigheid doen.
Wat die wet en die bloed van diere nie kon doen nie, Jesus kon! Jesus, die lewende Woord, came in the flesh and became the Substitute of the disobedient, rebelse ou man, wie se eindbestemming die ewige dood in die poel van vuur is.
Hulle wat Christus s'n is, het die vlees gekruisig met die liefde en begeerlikhede
Galasiërs 4:24
The true meaning and result of the cross in the lives of believers
Aan die kruis, Jesus het met die sondige natuur omgegaan, wat in die vlees aanwesig is. Sodat, almal, wat in Hom glo en wedergebore word, sal verlos word van die sondige natuur van die vlees, wat sonde en dood voortbring.
The believer shall no longer produce sin from the sinful flesh, but righteousness from the Spirit (O. Romeine 6-8; Galasiërs 5:16-26).
Wil jy ontslae raak van die sondes in jou lewe? Dan is al wat jy hoef te doen: gaan na die oorsaak van sonde. Gaan na die wortel van die sondeprobleem, wat die vlees is. Solank jou vlees nie sterf nie, jou gees kan nie opgewek word nie.
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